Salaar director Prashanth Neel speaks about the clash with Shah Rukh Khan starrer Dunki: We’re not trying to compete

Box office clashes can be substandard for both the movies and the business can get affected. Speaking of which, two superstars Prabhas and Shah Rukh Khan also clashed at the box office with their movies and fans are taking it differently. Some are supporting both movies while some are only pulling the other movie down. As Salaar and Dunki clash kept everyone on the edge of their seats, Prabhas starrer director Prashanth Neel reacted to the (in) famous clash.

Prashanth Neel on the clash between Dunki and Salaar

Speaking about the same, the director told Pinkvilla, “This is what happens in cinema. You root for your heroes and the emotions get the better of you. It might be that way (war) for the fans but for us, we are not trying to compete with one another. We are both trying to survive together. I do not advocate being a part of something like that. It’s nasty is what I heard. And I really wish it did not come down to something like that because both the stars are huge in Indian cinema and they deserve all the respect that they have accumulated over the years. The whole environment is not good for the cinema also. You rather ignore it because there is no way to control something like that. You just let it pass.“

Prashanth Neel on having Salaar 2

The KGF director said, “No, I won’t change the story. I am not going to change one bit in that because of the feedback that I have gotten. I mean, that is a written story already, I have to follow the story. My job as a director is to narrate the story that we have written and it is a story that all of us have loved and want to tell on screen, on celluloid and that is exactly what we are going to do.”

Furthermore, when asked about, when he is planning to start working on Salaar part 2, Prashanth Neel said, “There is no plan as of now. We want to get everything right before we go ahead. It is too early for me to even think of something like that.“

Salaar: Part 1: Ceasefire features Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan, and Jagapathi Babu.

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